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Geoarchaeology 2009 - Landscape to Laboratory and Back Again A truly interdisciplinary event – hosted by the Departments of Archaeology and Geography Papers are invited on any topic, but especially:
For expressions of interest and further details contact: email : geoarch@sheffield.ac.uk web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/conferences/geoarchaeology.html
Environmental Archaeology in a Changing World The annual residential meeting of the AEA - our 30th Anniversary symposium - will be held at the University of York , York , UK , 3rd-5th September 2009. For more information and a downloadable registration form, please go to http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/AEA30/registration.html. NB We would like to have registrations from those requiring accommodation on campus by 31st May. We are planning two full days of papers aligned to the following loose themes: Thread 1: Environmental Archaeology, climatic change and sustainability: past and present Thread 2: Environmental Archaeology and developer-funded research: constraints and opportunities Thread 3: General session: research and advances in Environmental Archaeology We welcome offers of papers (15-20 mins duration) and posters: please use the booking form on the conference web site to offer a paper or poster and to make a booking for accommodation. The link from the registration page to ‘Abstracts' will give guidance as to what we information we need. We do not propose to produce a conference volume as such, but papers (subject to the usual refereeing processes) are always welcomed by the Editors of the AEA's journal Environmental Archaeology and we would urge contributors of papers to consider this route. A Conference Dinner will be held on the evening of Friday 4th September and the Association's Annual General Meeting will also be held during the conference. Combined costs for full board – accommodation and meals (including Conference Dinner) – and registration fee for the whole meeting (Thursday afternoon to Saturday afternoon) is £216 for AEA members, with a reduction for student, unwaged and retired members to £196 and a slightly higher charge (£236) for non-members. Delegates may pay a (similarly tiered) daily rate to attend the meeting if they do not require accommodation. In view of the anniversary nature of the meeting, we would also like to gather images from previous meetings. If you have any images – preferably electronic – relevant to past meetings of the AEA (but none which might result in litigation!) send them, with a caption if appropriate, to the organisers for inclusion in a poster to be mounted during the meeting. On the morning of Sunday 6th. September delegates will be able to visit the York Archaeological Trust's long-term excavations at Hungate in the city (please remember to indicate whether you are interested in this on the booking form, and bear in mind that you will need an extra night's accommodation if you are staying till the Sunday). Otherwise, there is plenty to do and see as a ‘archaeo-tourist’ in York. AEA Conference FundThe AEA has £750 to disburse (in five £150 allocations) to members of the Association who need assistance in attending the meeting. Priority will be given to those with limited alternative sources of funding (particularly postgraduate students and those in the commercial field). Links from the conference web page provide more information and an application form. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in York this September! Allan Hall , Andy Hammon and Harry Kenward
The Polish Association of Environmental Archaeology (SAS) kindly invite you to the 15th Meeting of the ICAZ Fish Remains Working Group (FRWG) We plan 2-3 days of paper presentations (20-25 minutes) and posters with the main focus on the following topics:
We request all colleagues, who would like to present a paper and/or a poster, to send us a long abstract of 2-4 pages , including figures and bibliography, if appropriate. The abstracts will be included in a conference book. Please send them to the contact address below. Deadline for Abstracts (Papers and Posters) is the 15 June 2009. The conference fee is expected to be around 150 €, and 100 € for students. It will cover coffee breaks, meals, reception and conference pack with the abstracts book. We have booked rooms for participants in two hotels: a) single 35-40 EUR, b) double 55-65 EUR (both variants with breakfast). Contacts will also be made with high standard hotels (3 or 4 stars). Registration form with details on accommodation will be sent soon. Colleagues who need financial support are kindly requested to specify by the end of January 2009 the kind of help they would need: conference fee, accommodation and meals, participation in fieldtrip. For the Meeting presentations English is preferred . If French, Spanish, German or Russian are used, participants are kindly requested to provide English titles, abstracts, captions in figures and so on. The meeting will be followed by a two days fieldtrip that is expected to cost about 130-150 EUR per person. Details will follow in the second circular. If you want to attend the meeting, please, send the following information to Daniel Makowiecki
Association of Environmental Archaeology Spring Conference, The theme of this conference reflects the interests of the Departments of Archaeology and Geography & Environment at the University of Aberdeen, in that it focuses explicitly on the lifeways, worldviews and environments of northern cultures, encompassing a region that takes in the northern Britain, North Atlantic, Northern Eurasia, high latitude North America and the North Pacific. Popular perception holds that if the 'cradle of civilization' was in warm southern climes, the north was little more than a frozen, peripheral wasteland. Such a caricature is hard to support when we consider the diverse and rich evidence of human cultures in the northern world. While often living in environments which could be less than favourable and even hostile, northern peoples were anything but more primitive versions of those further south. Through complex histories of colonization, local innovation and cultural contact, the northern world developed an astonishing range of prehistoric and historic societies and cultures; from ancient Siberian populations to the Picts of Scotland and from the hunter-fisher-gatherers of the North Pacific to the Vikings of Scandinavia. This conference will explore human interactions with northern environments and will foster discussion about how individuals and communities understood, adapted to, and transformed the landscapes in which they moved and acted. What the impacts did these communities have on their environments? How does environmental archaeology inform our understanding of northern societies? How do social and cultural constructs shape our understanding of these environments? The programme will devote two days to presentations and will offer an optional field excursion to visit some of the impressive archaeological sites of Aberdeenshire on the third day. First call for papers: The organising committee would like to invite oral and poster presentations based on these broad themes, involving any aspect of environmental archaeology. Oral presentations will have a maximum length of 20 minutes. The conference organisers will select from among the submitted proposals and will schedule the presentations in thematic groups. In addition poster presentations are also welcome; the poster format will be notified at the time of the acceptance of proposals. Abstracts should be sent as text documents (preferably in Word format) by November 1st, 2009 to: t.mighall@abdn.ac.uk. Please include a title, author or authors’ complete name(s) and affiliations, a full postal and email addresses. Abstracts should be maximum 200 words and contain a clear description of the topic of the presentation. The language of the conference will be English. Further details will be posted on the websites of the AEA and the Departments of Archaeology and Geography & Environment: www.abdn.ac.uk/archaeology Conference organisers: Tim Mighall (Geography & Environment), Kevin Edwards (Archaeology & Geography & Environment), Karen Milek (Archaeology) and Keith Dobney (Archaeology). Informal enquiries to Tim Mighall (t.mighall@abdn.ac.uk)
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